The Most Fun and Useful Daily Tarot Exercise Ever!
So you’ve gotten yourself a deck and you’ve been reading through that little book that came with it. Maybe you’ve started doing some readings for yourself or your friends, but you’re still using the book as a crutch. Or perhaps you’re an experienced reader but you’d like to connect with the cards on a deeper level and read from a more intuitive place. Let me first stop you and invite you to read one of my previous blog posts titled “How To Identify and Develop Your Psychic Language” which can be found here:
https://www.nightingaletarot.com/blog/development-your-own-psychic-language
Once you’ve read that, you should have a better understanding of how to initially connect with your cards, but your intuition is like a muscle that has to be exercised regularly in order to be strong. In my opinion, the best way to do this is by performing a daily tarot draw. This is a very simple yet powerful way to continue to develop and expand your psychic vocabulary. I have a way of doing this that is very fun that I’m going to teach you here. This is not only an exercise I do for myself because I love doing it, but it’s one I give to every tarot student I’ve ever mentored because it’s incredibly useful for sharpening intuition.
This exercise does not have to be complicated or surrounded by complex ritual, although if that’s your jam, by all means go for it. You can make the draw as boujee or as quick and simple as you’d like.
You will need a few things:
Tarot deck
Journal
Pen/Pencil (colored pencils or markers if you’re a fancy pants)
Everyday, preferably when you wake up, shuffle your deck and draw a single card. Record it in your journal. You can draw it, paint it, make up a symbol to represent it, write it out…it doesn’t matter. Like I said, make this as simple or as complicated as you want. You can start with just upright cards for a while if you’d like until you get a really comfortable grasp of this exercise. You can always start adding reversals later if you decide to do that, but even by only practicing uprights you will still deepen and broaden your understanding of reversals if you choose to read them.
Now, it’s very important to remember that this daily card draw is not designed to be predictive of your day. If you draw the Tower, don’t be walking around in fear expecting your shit to hit the fan all day. The card is not about you. What you’re going to do is carefully survey your environment and the situations and people in it while intentionally seeking out examples of that card. You are on a tarot scavenger hunt and the goal is to find as many examples as possible of your daily card. Maybe you’ll hear it in a song on the radio. Maybe you’ll see it on TV. Maybe you’ll overhear someone talking about a situation in their own life and think “yep, that’s the Tower.” Maybe it’ll be entirely literal and you will see a picture somewhere of an actual tower falling. Perhaps you’ll bump into a person who reminds you of your ex who brought some heavy Tower energy to your life at one time. The point is to make it a game where the object is to find as many things as possible through the day that you are able to relate back to your daily card. Imagine you are competing with someone for who can find the most references to that day’s card.
Side note: if you ever want to actually compete with me for a day for this exercise just email me at NightingaleTarot@yahoo.com and I’d love to do this!
At the end of the day, return to your journal to record your thoughts and observations. See how many you were able to find. Like I said, you can make this process as detailed or simple as you’d like. Sometimes it’s fun to use markers or colored pencils to bring color associations in too. Hell, you can write a song about it if you want. It’s your journal. Get creative. Keep a digital journal if you want. I don’t care. The point is that by doing this, you’re pulling the cards out of abstract concepts written in a little white book and you’re seeing all the surprising ways they can fit into real life scenarios. Have fun with this and you’ll be amazed at how much your understanding of the cards expands!
